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Trotter Fsims Riot at Yonkers Race Trac Noon Edition 57th Year Price 10 Cents Cries of 'Fix' Start as Odds on Longshot Dropped Damage Figured At $100,000 Yonkers. N.Y. - HTP - Near ly 1,000 trotting track fans yelling "fix" rioted at Yon kers Raceway Tuesday night, forcing cancellation of the last The Beauties of Scenic Oregon Medford Tribune (Oregon State Highway Commission Photoi 18 Pages Two Sections MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY 30, 1962 No. 60 1 I It Jagged bluffs are Hatfield Names Paul Kliever as Adjutant General Salem-IUTO-Brig. Gen. Paul L. Kliever, Salem, Tuesday was appointed Oregon Adju tant General by Gov. Mark Hatfield to succeed Gen. .Al fred E. Hintz who Mled last week of a heart seizure. a Kliever, 52 and a native of Aberdeen, Idaho, has been Oregon's assistant adjutant general since 1959. He takes over immediately. ' Kliever began his military career by enlisting as a priv ate in the 162nd Infantry in Dallas, Ore., in 1930. He was promoted from colonel to brigadier general last year. The governor's office said it was not certain about whether Kliever would take over com mand of the 41st infantry di vision. The 41st is made up of National Guard units from both Oregon and Washington, and the command rotates be tween the two states. When Hintz died he was the 41st commander. The acting commander now is Brig. Gen. Ralph Phelps, Spokane, Wash. Kliever's elevation creates a vacancy for assistant Ore gon adjutant general. Kliever said he has this appointment under advisement. Stud Driver Said Taken in Medford A '. stud driver valued ' at more than $100 was reported stolen Tuesday afternoon from 1 King St., Medford police re ported. The driver, used to fasten boards to concrete, uses load ed cartridges, which could be dangerous if used improperly, police said. Also taken were 150 rounds of .22, .32 and .38 caliber charges and fasteners. Police said that since the charges contain a high amount of black powder, they could be dangerous if used in a fire arm taking that caliber cart ridge. 1963 Legislature To Seek 70 MPH Limit Salem - OTP - A speed limit of 70 miles an hour in Oregon will be an aim in the 1963 Legislature. Senate Minority Leader Anthony Yturri (R-On-tario) said Tuesday. newsoDbriefs rriMS from mound thi oioii RUSK CONFERS ON BERLIN PROBLEM Wahington-in-Stcr!ary of Stale Dean Ruik and So viet Ambassador Analoly F. Dobrynin today hald wide ranging ditcutiion ef In Berlin probltm which disclosed no "givt" In tht petition of tiihtr tidt. PARIS POLICE CAPTURE TERRORIST Paris-IPI-Police today loughl gun battle and captured terrorist alleged to have helped meilermind the aiiaitina- lion attempt on President Charles de Gaulle last Sept. 8. LONDON TRADERS HOPE FOR RECOVERY London-lPt-Tradtn on London'! stock exchange, reeling from their wortt rfay lince the war, hoped tocifjr the partial recsvery on Wall Slietl would spur a limilar revival here, viewed from a new section of Laotian Rebels Force Royalists To Leave Border Town Vientiane, Laos - HOT - Pro Communist rebels have launched a new offensive on Ban Houei Sai, forcing the Royal' government garrison and its U.S. advisees to evacu ate the strategic town on the Thai border, a ,U.S. military spokesman said -today, The spokesman said the rebels hit the. town this morn ing with a heavy artillery bar rage. He said most of the government troops had fled across the Mekong river into Thailand. Advisers Found Unharmed The report of the bombard ment followed an announce ment that two U.S. military advisers missing since Sunday had been found unharmed near Ban Houei Sai in north western Laos, and flown to safety in a helicopter. Pre sumably they evacuated with the others. The U.S. spokesman said most of the 800-man Royal garrison at Ban Houei Sai had Freeway Opening Ceremonies Set Cere monies to officially open Interstate Highway 5 from Grants Pass to Rogue River will start at 11 a.m. Fri day. Gov. Mark Hatfield, high way department officials and civic leaders from Grants Pass and Rogue River will leave a point 1V4 miles east of Grants Pass at 11 a.m. and drive to Rogue River. Ceremonies are scheduled at the Rogue River inter change at 11:30 a.m. Mayor Larry Shcchan of Rogue Riv er will present Governor Hat field with a key to the city, and Richard Niquette, cham ber of commerce president, will give him an honorary membership in the chamber. Glenn Jackson of Medford. chairman of the state high way commission, will be mas ter of ceremonies. Following the Rogue River ceremonies, the party will travel back to Grants Pass for a no-host luncheon at the Riverside restaurant. Highway 101 along the southern Oregon coast. fled to Thailand by this morn ing. Some U.S. military ad visers and Laotian army offi cers who stayed behind fi nally were forced to with draw in the face of the rebel artillery bombard m e n t, he Said. . ' 11 was not immediately known whether the town it self had been occupied by the attacking rebels, the spokes man said. This was the second time this month that a pro-Communist drive , against Ban Houei Sai has routed govern ment defender across the river into Thailand where Ameri can combat troops have been deployed. A U.S. spokesman said the two missing American . in structors were picked up by helicopter about five miles from Ban Houei Sai and flown to friendly hands. The Americans were iden tified as Sfc. Virgil Murphy of Van Buren, Ind., and Sgt. Merle Loobey of Seattle, Wash. The men were examined at the Tom Dooley hospital and found to be in good condition, the spokesman said. They re turned with their weapons and full gear. Huss Talk Halted at Monmouth Campus Monmouth-IUPn - A talk by Walter Huss, director of the anti-communist Freedom Cen ter in Portland, was halted here Tuesday night when I Huss criticized Oregon Col lege of Education administra tor Ellis Stebbins. Huss attacked Stebbins for I permitting communist party I leader Gus Hall to speak on the campus last winter. Huss was speaking to a crowd of about 125 students at OCE. The talk was inter rupted by Leland Hess, an OCE social science instructor who was acting as moderator of a question and answer ses sion. Hess stopped the talk and said, "I do not wish to have this platform used to criticize an administrator who is not here to defend himself." Applause greeted Hess's statement. Huss charged that Stebbins and others were representa tives of a "degenerating American society" that has re jected the concept of God. Secret Satellite Fired at Vondenberg Vandcnberg AFB. Calif.-ilW A secret satellite, believed to be of the Discoverer se ries, was launched Tuesday from this Pacific missile I range base but the Air Force declined to confirm whether it had attained orbit. Past Discover satellites i have carried ;ghly sophisti- I cated instrument packages for s.,pling reflation end gath- eying other experimental data for man-in-pnce programs Talk of Possible Tax Reduction Seen Premature Washington (UPI Talk of a possible tax cut to stimulate the economy appeared pre mature today even though some of the talk came from high administration officials. The Kennedy administra tion was keeping a close watch on the economy in the wake of the wild gyrations of the stock market during the last few days. Politicians had little doubt that President Kennedy would call for a quick cut in income taxes, if his economic ad visers should conclude that the stock market situation heralds the beginning of a recession. A significant boost in unemployment would threaten to imperil Demo cratic prospects in next No vember's congressional elec tions. Some Recovery Made But Kennedy's top economic advisers are insisting that the economy is in good shape. This view was strongly es poused Tuesday by Chairman Walter Heller of the Presi dent's Council of Economic Advisers in a talk to a private gathering of congress i o n a I Democrats. "The ironic thing" about the stock market s tumble Heller told them, is that it occurred "when all the indi cators on the economic front were moving up . . . not a little bit but rtioving up rap idly." Some government econo mists said that stock prices (had' soared too high in rela- iiun io earnings ana naa now been brought down to more realistic levels. The market Tuesday recovered part of Monday s sharp losses. Commerce Secretary Luth er Hodges started the tax cutting talk at a news con ference Tuesday morning when the market was still going down. Accident Victims Remain Critical Two women who were in jured in automobile accidents in Jackson county earlier this month are still reported on the critical list, according to hospital officials. In critical condition at Rogue Valley hospital is Mrs. Aubrey McNicki, 40, of Orange St., Medford. She was a passenger in an automobile May 26 which was involved in an accident near Dodge bridge. Still in critical condition at I Sacred Heart hopsital since a May 13 accident is Mrs. Sharolyn Lee Bennett. 20. T route 1. box 396. Gold Hill. She suffered head injuries in a two-car accident in which three persons were killed. McCOPeMACK HONORED Washington-IW-The Wash ington Intertaith Committee selected speaker John W. Mc Cormack ID-Mass.) Tuesday for its annual award as the national personality who con tributed most to Interfaith und'Qtanding. race and causing an estimated $100,000 damage. The management of the raceway, one of the most modern and beautiful in the country, refunded all bets on the ninth race which was called shortly before midnight when hundreds of fans in vaded the track. Betters got back about $265,000. The disturbance began when a rush of betting money dropped the odds on a long shot horse, Miss Chief Mo ken from 10 to 1 to 5 to 2 shortly before the starting bell for the eighth race. Miss Chief Moken hadn't won race since last November. Volume Increase! Booing started as the tote board showed the diminishing odds. It rose in volume as the race began with Miss Chief Moken in the lead. There was a roar of anger as the longshot finished two and one half lengths in the lead, paying $7.30. At intermission hundreds of fans lined the track fence shouting disapproval. One man, identified as James Green, New York, burst through the fence beckoning the other men to follow. He was hit by the mobile starting gate which was rolling at 35 miles an hour. The horses got off to a jumbled start and were ordered off the track at the quarter post. Beer Cans Toned The crowd of 31,054 in the stands rained beer cans onto the track, striking the depart ing horses. Hundreds more angry fans streamed onto the track and set dozens of small bundles of programs and other papers afire. They ran 1 riot, burning many tribunal seats and at tempting to set the ultra modern structure itself afire. Others tore down concessions stands and burned them, wrecking bars, scattered food and china and pulled down light stanchions. Bricks were heaved through windows, fences demolished and tote boards smashed. Riot Alarm Sounded The track's 66 private de tectives were unable to re store order and sent out a riot alarm to city, state and parkway police and to fire and police departments in neighbor ing communities. More than 100 authorities re sponded and quelled the riot. Police arrested three per sons, including Green, for in citing a riot and another man for felonious assault on a po liceman. Green was sent to a hospital where his condition was listed as fair. HEARINGS SCHEDULED Salem - IUPII - Hearings will be held June 7-8 In Enter prise, La Grande and Baker by the Legislative Interim Agriculture Committee. Pageant Finalist Linda Ray Representing Phoenix in the Miss Rogue Valley Pag eant is Lindn Ray, 'daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Ray. Phoenix. She has brown hair and green eyes is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs 121 pounds. She will present a dramatic reading during the talent section of the pageant which will be held June 2 at the Oregon Shakespearean Festival theater in Ashland. Her chief hobby is collecting poetry and her favorite sport is hiking. She plans to attend Southern Oregon college this fall. O -51 PAVING STARTED Paving of the section of Interstate 5 freeway from Seven Oaks to Jackson st. in Medford got under way this week as crews, operating a "train" of huge paving machines, laid 1,700 feel of the, new roadway. When going full swing, they will put down about three quarters of a mile a day. The picture above, taken from the Seven Oaks overpass looking toward Medford, shows Americans Honor War Dead; Autos Clog Highways By United Press International Americans honored their war dead today and took to the highways to enjoy the first spring holiday at parks, beaches and mountains. For some, the Memorial Day holiday was their last. During the early hours of the holiday, highways leading away from major cities were clogged with the mass exodus to the country. In Maryland, five persons were killed outright when their car missed a curve along Maryland 416 at Sunderland and crashed Into a tree. California reported dead, Ohio four and eight New three York and Nebraska each. 120 Deaths Predicted The National Safety Coun cil said that holiday traffic could claim 120 lives during the 30 hours between 6 p.m. local time Tuesday night and midnight tonight. At 9:30 a.m. (PST) a United Press International count showed that 42 persons had been killed In traffic acci dents since the holiday began. The breakdown: traffic 42, drownings 5 and miscellane ous 3, for a total of 30. Four Indianapolis Racers Pile Up Indianapolis, Ind. - IUPII - A spectacular four-car sinashup coming out of the northwest turn into the home straight away today thrilled a vast crowd of nearly 250,000 early in the 500-mile auto race. All four drivers in the crash. Jack Turner, Chuck Rodec, Bob Christie and Al len Crowe, escaped without scrioup injury. The crash began when Tur ner's car went astray coming out of the turn, banging into the inside wall and almost flipping over. Rodec. Christie and Crowe all smacked into the wreckage and three of the cars almost blocked the track. Bulletin Indianapolii, Ind. - ITI -Rodger Ward, a curly-hair-td daredevil, led the last 30 laps at record ipeed today to win 'he 500-mile auto rece for the second time with a record ipeed of more than 140 miles an hour. WEATHER fORKCAhT: PHlV floudv to ntht. fair Ihimrlty t?njrpt for morntnr rloiifiinrt. l.w ton I thi 44-50. lth Ihurkday 70-75. Temp. Mllvt Yfitrrdav HI Loweil Thti .Morning 48 Our Skies Tonigh? fttimM tortiv HnnrUr lomnrrnw Monrlf lornorfttw Nw Mufin PHOMI.NKNT UTAH ItMiih). In In wMt VIMlll.K I'UM.lH V. rt A .. Mar, rtitfk T:ll 4 1 1:44 :1T Jtinit'r, In tlir touth- t it i 4:13 I ftttufi due tnuth tits U'HWS "of"""1 CW. ixiil Wall Street Uses Holiday To Counsel Befuddled Patrons New York -(UPlt- Wall Street was able to assume a holiday mood today and used the Me morial Day breather to clean up from the most frenetic trading in 33 years. Investors Tuesday recover ed more than $13.5 billion of the paper values lost on Mon day and checked a downward trend of six days in epectacU' lar fashion. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange, the nation's largest securities trading mart, was 14.750,000 shares. Brokers were happy to give up leisure time today to staff their offices and provide coun sel for befuddled patrons. . The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks ended at 603.96, up 27.03 points on the day, a recovery of about 70 per cent of the 34.05 point drop Monday. Standard & Poor s 500 stock index was 58.08, up 2.58. But it was hours after the gong sounded to end trading to the cheers of investors cn the floor, before the statistics could be assembled. Gospel Mission to Move Its Location The Medford Gospel Mis sion, 33 South Front St., is expected to move from that location sometime within the next three weeks, mission of ficials reported today. The structure, which has housed the mission since it was started here In March, 1959, will be razed in June along with several other buildings on Front st, between Main and Eighth sts. to make way for a Park and Shop lot. The final building to be torn down will be Otto's Tavern, 39 South Front st., which will be demolished after Nov. 3, when the lease expires, ac cording to Fred Robinson, Park and Shop official. Although mission officials would not announce imme diate plans at this time, it was learned that a lease is being negotiated on a struc ture on North Grape st. be tween Sixth and Main sts. A campaign is under way to construct a mission on property on North Front st. near Third st. The new struc ture is not expected to be com pleted until sometime in 1963 Pierce Freight Sale Announced Salem (UPli JoncI C. Hill, Oregon Public Utility Com missioner, Tuesday authorized Valley Motor Lines of Califor nia to take over the Oregon operating rights of Pierce FreigTit Lines, Portland. A spokesman for the veteran Pierce Lines said the firm is going out of the trucking business. Valley Motor's new permit allows service along U.S. 99 between Portland and the California border. Hill said fjVallry Motor is also acqulr- .. I : , 1 I , nan nift i itut a 1-11119' ni-ty ui oou vchk'0nd other equipment. A a section of the new paving as it looked yesterday morn ing. The northbound lane is being paved first and the southbound lane will be paved on the return trip. The machine in the foreground, which appears to make the pavement lighter in color, is applying a curing compound that keeps moisture from evaporating too quickly. The last of the delayed sales figures sputtered out on the ticker tape 4 hours and 45 minutes after trading stopped. The American Stock Ex change . tickers were not so far behind, but Amex trading was highest for the year, 5,- 330.000 shares. The day liad started with the trend lower but shortly after noon,, with the . tape al ready far late, "flash" prices showed some of the blue chips beginning a comeback. From then on the issues which go into the averages mostly made gains and held them. Sources were agreed on one thing: The low levels to which stocks had been driven, noticeably on Monday but coming after a six-day slide. had attracted plenty of buyers who thought they knew a good thing when they saw it. Student Admits Bicycle Thefts A 15-year-oid junior high school student was lodged in tne Jackson County juvenile detention home Tuesday after he admitted to Medford police that he and a friend stole sev eral bicycles and sold them. Expected to be questioned today is a 13-year-old Junior high school student. According to a statement given to police by the 15-year-old, he took bicycles from various schools, forged notes from his parents giving him permission to sell the bicycle or parts and then took them to a local shop. Money from the sale would be divided between the two boys, he said. Police said the boy also ad mitted participating in the theft of four hubcaps from a car at Medford bowling lanes, breaking out several windows and lights at Lincoln Ele mentary school, shooting a neon motel sign several times, and Implicated his friend in the theft of six dollars and a knife from the clothing of boys in the locker room at one of the Junior highs. With the questioning, police cleared one of five cases of bicycle thefts reported Tuesday. Eichmann Asks President Of Israel To Jerusalem, Israel-'lirj-GoV' ernment sources said today former Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann Jias asked President Itzhak Bc'n-Zvi to spare him from hanging for .his part in the wartime slaughter of six millions Jews. The sources apparently thus scotched earlier reports that Eichmann was resigned to go ing to the gallows and would not seek a presidential re prieve. (In Rome, Eichmann's at torney, Robert Scrvatius, ar rived from Jerusalem and said he had "presented this morn ing request for clemency for Eichmann to the President it Beekman Home In Jacksonville Gpens to Public Jacksonville-About 75 per sons attended 'ceremonies at the official opening of the old C. C. Beekman home in Jack sonville this morning. . Tli home of the early-day Jacksonville banker will be open each week end until schools in the county close for vacation, then it will be open daily. ; Officials of Jacksonville and the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, which is sponsor ing the home, were disap pointed in the small initial crowd, but hoped more people visit the home today. Arrival of Stage The opening was preceded by the arrival of George Mc- Une s mule-drawn stage coach carrying the four Jackson county dairy princess con testants, Barbara Gysin, Coal Mine rd., Medford; Karen Jossy, Eagle Point; Georgia Hubbard, Eagle Point, and Connie McDonough, Sams Valley. They were Introduced and gave brief talks on their dairy farm backgrounds and the need for promotion of the dairy industry. Jack Sutton, Grants Pass, president of the Siskiyou Pioneer Sites Foundation, briefly related the background of Beekman as the first suc cessful banker in southern Oregon. He served as Jack sonville agent for Wells Far go and company from 1863 to his death in 1913. County Com m i s s 1 o n e r Chester Wendt explained the one-year temporary lease of the home from the University of Oregon. "It (the home) is valuable to Jackson county and to Jacksonville," he noted. AMERICAN (First game) New York 10 16 0 Minnesota .. 1 7 3 Stafford and Howard; Donikowskl, K r a lick (6), Miranda (9) and Naragon. Spare Life of Israel." He declined further comment). The sources said Eichmann signed a four-page clemency petition Just before his trans fer lij Ramlle prison. They said the plea was "written in Eichmann's oftn hand." The 56-ycar-old German showed neither surprise nor distress Tuesday when Israel's Supreme Court unanimously rejected his appeal avilnst his death sentence for directing the Nazi mass murder of Jews during World War II. The re jection meant that only re prieve from Ben-Zlv could save Elchgiann's life. i o
